"users. Electronic Arts' version had about 586,000 while RealNetworks' version had 357,000 users. The Scrabulous company was founded by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, both commerce graduates of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India. The Scrabulous website was created at the end of 2005, after the Agarwalla brothers, Rajat and Jayant, who had won numerous Scrabble tournaments, felt the need for a free gaming site where the popular game could be played. It was initially made available as ""BingoBinge"", with the site moving to Scrabulous on 5 July 2006. In 2006 the website had 20,000 registered users, but after the developers made"
"Scrabble Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada; outside these two countries it is a trademark of Mattel. The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in 29 languages; approximately 150 million sets"
"gives the information a serious player needs to advance to successful tournament play. There have been numerous documentaries made about the game, including: Scrabble Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada; outside these two countries"
"application known as TuxWordSmith which is similar to Scrabble and supports over 80 languages including Greek and Russian. TuxMathScrabble is included in numerous Linux distributions, including the Edubuntu flavor of Ubuntu, Gentoo Linux, SUSE Linux and several education software collections. TuxMathScrabble TuxMathScrabble is a math version of the classic word game Scrabble (Trademark of Hasbro) which challenges kids to construct compound equations and to consider multiple abstract possibilities. TuxMathScrabble was originally developed for Linux, but much effort was subsequently put into making the game platform-independent (Linux, Mac, Windows). The game can be played by 0, 1 or 2 players, where"
"Scrabble ME Scrabble ME is a variation on the classic board game ""Scrabble"", where each player plays on their own small board as opposed to all players playing on one main shared board. It was published by Winning Moves Games USA in 2008 but is no longer in production. The gameplay is a bit different from normal ""Scrabble"", due to each player having their own board. Each turn, players build words on their boards simultaneously. Once all players do this, the round ends and players score their words. After each round, players have the option to choose a replacement letter"
"no longer allowed, and there is a modified scoring scheme, outlined below. Other Boggle variants have included: Numerous unofficial computer versions and variants of the game are available. By 1989, users of MIT's Project Athena competed in the online game ""mboggle"". In 2013, Ruzzle, a mobile phone game based on Boggle, topped the most-downloaded iPhone apps chart. Other games similar to or influenced by Boggle include ""Bananagrams"", ""Bookworm"", ""Dropwords"", ""Letterpress"", ""Puzzlage"", ""SpellTower"", ""Word Factory"", ""Wordquest"", ""WordSpot"", ""Word Streak with Friends"", ""WordTwist"", and ""Zip-It"". While not as widely institutionally established as Scrabble, several clubs have been established for the purpose of"
"is allowable in ordinary Scrabble, EEAIORT would be allowable in Clabbers. A junior version, called ""Junior Scrabble"", has been marketed. This has slightly different distributions of frequencies of letter tiles to the standard ""Scrabble"" game. Word games similar to or influenced by ""Scrabble"" include Bananagrams, Boggle, Dabble, Nab-It!, Perquackey, Puzzlage, Quiddler, Scribbage, Tapple, Upwords, and WordSpot and also Words of Gold. There are also number-based variations, such as Equate (game), GoSum, Mathable, Numble, Numbler, Triolet, Yushino and Numenko. The game has been released in numerous gameboard formats appealing to various user groups. The original boards included wood tiles and many"
"Clabbers Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments. The name derives from the fact that the words CLABBERS and SCRABBLE form an anagram pair. The rules are identical to those of Scrabble, except that valid plays are only required to form anagrams of acceptable words; in other words, the letters in a word do not need to be placed in the correct order. If a word is challenged, the player who played the word must then name an acceptable word that anagrams to the tiles played. Because the number of"
"Scrabble Slam! Scrabble Slam! is a card game as well as word game by Hasbro. It was released on June 20, 2009. It is based on the popular board game, Scrabble. This game is also available on the Nintendo DSiWare in North America on April 26, 2010, and on ""Scrabble Showdown"" on The Hub. The game features 55 cards. Each card has 2 letters on them. One on the front and one on the back. The game can have 2 to 4 players. Each player pulls four letters out of the deck to form a four letter word. Afterwards, each"
"Alphabear Alphabear is a freemium Scrabble-style word game that was released by independent video game company Spry Fox in July 2015. It draws on creative elements of one of their older releases, the 2010 game ""Panda Poet"". The premise of the game is making words from random letters on a grid for points, and scoring as many points as possible. Using tiles unlocks other tiles adjacent to them, however tiles not used for a number of turns decay into unusable stone blocks. Scoring well in levels unlocks progressively more valuable cube-shaped bears and further levels. Playing a round requires the"
"Scrabble (video game) Scrabble is an official computerized version of the board game of the same name. ""Scrabble"" reproduces the game board, tiles, and game pieces onscreen. A clock is included to promote rapid thinking to spell and place words within a user-defined time limit. The game also has lightning- and tournament-timing alternatives. The player's letter rack is visible at the bottom of the screen. The player types a word composed of letters from the rack, and if the word is acceptable by the game, the player moves the cursor to the game board to position the word onscreen and"
"Collins Scrabble Words Collins Scrabble Words (formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the USA, Thailand and Canada. The term SOWPODS is an anagram of the two acronyms ""OSPD"" (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) and ""OSW"" (Official Scrabble Words), these being the original two official dictionaries used in various parts of the world at the time. Although the two source dictionaries have now changed their respective titles, the term SOWPODS is still used by tournament players to refer to the combination of the two sources. There has not been any actual hard-copy list"
"the United States by the latter date. Scrabble (video game) Scrabble is an official computerized version of the board game of the same name. ""Scrabble"" reproduces the game board, tiles, and game pieces onscreen. A clock is included to promote rapid thinking to spell and place words within a user-defined time limit. The game also has lightning- and tournament-timing alternatives. The player's letter rack is visible at the bottom of the screen. The player types a word composed of letters from the rack, and if the word is acceptable by the game, the player moves the cursor to the game"
"skill level) board. There are numerous variations of the game. While they are similar to the original ""Scrabble"" game, they include minor variations. For example, Literati draws random tiles instead of providing a finite number of tiles for the game, assigns different point levels to each letter and has a slightly different board layout, whereas Lexulous assigns eight letters to each player instead of seven. Words with Friends uses a different board layout and different letter values, as does Words of Gold. Duplicate Scrabble is a popular variant in French speaking countries. Every player has the same letters on the"
"""words"" that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others. Game scores will often be much higher than in standard Scrabble, due to the relative ease of making high-scoring overlap plays and easier access to premium squares. The Internet Scrabble Club offers the ability to play Clabbers online. Horizontal words from top to bottom (# denotes words that exist in the Collins English Dictionary but not the TWL). Some of the words below have multiple anagrams: Vertical words from left to right Clabbers"
"""Time Out"" immediately to halt play and make a decision about the word on the table. Unlike the board game, words can be repeated throughout the game, but a player can never set a letter on top of a same letter. A ""t"" can never be placed on top of another ""t"" in the word. Therefore, the words change constantly. Blank cards in the deck can be used to represent any letter (Hasbro, 2008). Scrabble Slam! Scrabble Slam! is a card game as well as word game by Hasbro. It was released on June 20, 2009. It is based on"
"company, Oxford Games Ltd, has published Anagram, the ingenious game of juggling words. ""Up For Grabs"" was published by Tyco in 1995. Portobello Games produces a version under the name ""Snatch"". Prodijeux has been marketing a variant called wordXchange since 2000. ""One Up!"" is yet another version, except it adds a ""wild"" tile, called the Uppity tile, that can be any letter (much like a blank tile in Scrabble). In 2015 Interactive Coconut produced an iOS mobile app variant called Grabble Words. Many players use several Scrabble or Upwords sets together. A version of the game seems to be popular"
"Word Streak with Friends Word Streak (formerly Scramble with Friends) is a word game developed by Zynga with Friends for iOS and Android and released in January 2012. Gameplay is similar to that of ""Boggle—""players try to find as many words as possible in a jumbled 4x4 grid of letters by connecting adjacent letters to form words within a two-minute time frame - though with extra features and a different scoring system. Words may be formed vertically, horizontally, and diagonally. ""Scramble with Friends"" is one of the top ranking games in the iOS application store, available as both a free"
"played at least 2,700 tournament games, winning about 69%, and earning over $164,000 in prize money. Cappelletto lives in Chicago, Illinois. Outside Scrabble, he works as an options trader and lists his interests as golf, impersonations and fantasy baseball. Brian Cappelletto Brian Cappelletto (born 1969) is a Scrabble player who represents the United States in international competition. He was the runner-up at the inaugural World Scrabble Championship in 1991 and won the event in 2001. He also won the American National Scrabble Championship in 1998, and was the runner-up in 2008 and 2010. Cappelletto appeared in Stefan Fatsis's book ""Word"
"words, figure out the answer to the clue without all the letters, then use the ""extra"" letters as aids to solve the remaining scrambled words. There are many variations of puzzles from the Jumble brand including Jumble, Jumble for Kids, Jumble Crosswords, TV Jumble, Jumble BrainBusters, Jumble BrainBusters Junior, Hollywood Jumble, Jumble Jong, Jumble Word Vault, Jumpin' Jumble, Jumble Solitaire, and Jumble Word Web. In addition to being playable online through various interactive online platforms such as on Tribune Content Agency's Web site in an HTML 5 implementation, Jumble is downloadable through several mobile game applications such as Apple's iTunes,"
"Duplicate Scrabble Duplicate Scrabble is a variant of the board game Scrabble where all the players are faced with the same board and letters at the same time and must play the highest scoring word they can find. Although duplicate is rarely played at competition level in English, it is the most popular form of the game in French and is also played in other languages, such as Romanian and Dutch. The largest French Scrabble festivals can attract over 2000 people and some individual tournaments can count over 1000 participants per game. Although not popular for competitions in English, the"
"create the words, players can: A version of the game seems to be popular among tournament Scrabble players. Writers John Ciardi, James Merrill, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Richard Wilbur reputedly played together regularly in Key West, Florida, with novelist John Hersey also sometimes sitting in. Bananagrams is a commercial version of the variant Take Two (see below). Clabbers is the best known variant to tournament Scrabble players. All of the rules are identical to Scrabble with one exception: words played only have to be anagrams of real words. For example, MPORCTEU is a valid play in Clabbers because it is"
"is distinguished by a ""10th Anniversary Edition"" logo on the lower right of the front cover. The documentary film ""Word Wars"" (2004), while not directly related to the book, includes many of the same players. Word Freak (book) Word Freak is a non-fiction narrative by Stefan Fatsis published in 2001 (). The book is subtitled ""Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players"". Fatsis, a sports reporter for ""The Wall Street Journal"", introduces the reader to the world of competitive Scrabble through a narrative of his slow transformation from ""a good living room player"" into a"
"named his project ""Lexiko"". The game design was rejected by games manufacturers such as Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, but Butts was able to sell copies on his own, though not enough to recoup his development expenses. In 1938, he began work on a board game based on ""Lexiko"", which he called ""Criss-Cross Words"", which was eventually renamed ""Scrabble"". Lexiko Lexiko was a word game invented by Alfred Butts. It was a precursor of ""Scrabble"". The name comes from the Greek ""lexicos"", meaning of ""words."" ""Lexiko"" was played with a set of 100 square cardboard tiles, with the same letter"
"been known as Scrabble in Sweden. Alfapet is now another crossword game, created by the owners of the name Alfapet. A Russian version is called ""Erudit"". Versions have been prepared for Dakotah, Haitian Creole, Dakelh (Carrier language), and Tuvan. For languages with digraphs counted as single letters, such as Welsh and Hungarian, the game features separate tiles for those digraphs. An Irish language version of Scrabble was published by Glór na nGael in 2010. The previous year the same organisation published the Junior version of the game and two years later it republished Junior Scrabble using a two-sided (and two"
"Scribbage Scribbage is a classic dice word game published in 1959 by the E.S. Lowe Company. 13 dice are rolled which have various letters on each side. Each letter is given a point value depending on its frequency in the English language. A timer is flipped and the player has to put the dice into words either left-to-right or up-and-down. The words must connect with each other as in crossword puzzles or ""Scrabble"". The player must stop at the end of the time and points are counted. The player adds up the points of the letters used and subtracts the"
"Lexiko Lexiko was a word game invented by Alfred Butts. It was a precursor of ""Scrabble"". The name comes from the Greek ""lexicos"", meaning of ""words."" ""Lexiko"" was played with a set of 100 square cardboard tiles, with the same letter distribution later used by ""Scrabble"" (see Scrabble letter distributions), but no board. Players drew nine tiles at random, and attempted to construct words from them. In 1931, Butts wrote a paper entitled ""Study of Games."" In his paper, he described three categories of games: board, number games using playing cards or dice, and letter games (or games that fell"
"the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. Randall Munroe posted a sample winning strategy in 2007 on the news page of his webcomic, xkcd. He based his solution on the Ubuntu dictionary. Superghost (also known as Lexicant or Llano) is played by choosing either the beginning or end of the growing word fragment and adding a letter there. For example, given the fragment ERA, a player might offer BERA or ERAD. This version was played by James Thurber and his circle of friends. Superduperghost is played by deciding whether to reverse the letters of the word fragment before adding a letter to"
"be the word QUARTERFINALIST. Good players must find 7-tile bonus plays a majority of the time, and the short odd words that are a staple in Scrabble are of little use in WildWords. ""Scarabeo"" is an Italian variant of Scrabble that is much more popular in its native country than the original game. It features a 17×17 board, 8 tiles per rack instead of 7, and a 30-point bonus for using 7 tiles as well as the 50-point ""bingo"". This child-friendly version of Scrabble can pretty much grow with the age of the child. The double-sided game board incorporates a"
"alternative to Wordfeud and Scrabble. WordCrex WordCrex is a mobile app similar to the famous word game Scrabble and Wordfeud. The iOS-version was released June 2, 2016 and the Android-version 8 september 2016. The game was presented as the first free fair word game challenge. ""WordCrex"" was developed by two Dutch creative friends Jelle Verwaijen and Dimitri Dirkzwager. It is different than most word games because the players use the same set of seven letters to form words. This way the luck factor of getting the right letters is not a decisive factor anymore. ""WordCrex"" is a multiplayer game. Games"
"each letter he would include in the game. He included only four ""S"" tiles so that the ability to make words plural would not make the game too easy. Butts initially called the game ""Lexiko"", but later changed the name to ""Criss Cross Words"", after considering ""It"", and began to look for a buyer. The game makers he originally contacted rejected the idea, but Butts was tenacious. Eventually, he sold the rights to entrepreneur and game-lover James Brunot, who made a few minor adjustments to the design and renamed the game ""Scrabble."" In 1948, the game was trademarked and James"
"the studio to focus on developing similar games, rebranding the studio by 2013 as Jackbox Games. Among their one-off titles including ""Lie Swatter"", ""Clone Booth"", and ""Word Puttz"", generally designed as single player titles or played asynchronously with other players. One key game that followed this was their 2014 title ""Fibbage"", which was designed to be a game allowing eight players to play against each other simultaneously aided by the use of one of the players using live streaming of their game or with people in the same room. Other players would participate by using a web browser or mobile"
"Upwords Upwords (also branded as Scrabble Upwords in the United States and Canada, and Topwords Crucimaster, Betutorony, Palabras Arriba, Stapelwoord in other countries) is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and originally published by the Milton Bradley Company, now a division of Hasbro. The game remains under license to Hasbro by Rudell Design, LLC. ""Upwords"" is similar to ""Scrabble"", or ""Words With Friends"", in that players build words using letter tiles on a gridded gameboard. The point of difference is that in ""Upwords"" letters can be stacked on top of other letters already on the gameboard to create new"